July 2, 2018 Eric Swain External Sources The Moving Pixels Podcast Discusses the ‘Circular’ Series This month we look at a pair of games by Mike Bithell, Subsurface Circular and Quarantine Circular. Another long one. A little ironic for the focus of this podcast episode being on two fairly small games, but also not ironic given how textually dense they both are. And that's not just a pun on the gameplay being text based. Both games are like the best of those mid-century sci-fi stories, they're about ideas and about communication. Subsurface Circular, while nominally a detective story, plays out more like a slice of life experience on the subway. | more
